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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Mueller’s Outrageous Raid - Matthew Vadum

by Matthew Vadum

A prosecutorial witch hunt spins out of control.

The shocking raid on the office, home, and Manhattan hotel room
of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, directed
by a rogue independent prosecutor is the latest outrage in an
out-of-control investigation aimed at reversing the results of the 2016
election.

The raid Monday that was directed by Special Counsel
Robert S. Mueller III was a “disgrace” and a “pure and simple witch
hunt,” President Trump told reporters at the White House.

“It’s an attack on our country in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.”

Trump’s comments fueled speculation that he will try to fire Mueller,
something the president had been avoiding talking about publicly. Some
lawmakers say terminating Mueller could lead to a constitutional crisis.

“We’ll see what happens. … Many people have said ‘you should fire
him,’ ” Trump said when asked if he would give Mueller the boot. “Again,
they found nothing and in finding nothing, that’s a big statement.”

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has threatened violent unrest if Trump fires Mueller. On Dec. 17 the nearly impeached Obama cabinet official tweeted:

“ABSOLUTE RED LINE: the firing of Bob Mueller or crippling the special
counsel’s office. If removed or meaningfully tampered with, there must
be mass, popular, peaceful support of both. The American people must be
seen and heard – they will ultimately be determinative.”

When
radicals like Holder say they want peaceful protests, they are lying. A
nonviolent leftist demonstration is almost a contradiction in terms.
Holder doesn’t care if people get killed as long as his preferred
political objective is achieved. He’s absolutely fine with riots and
arson, as long as they are carried out for the right reasons.

Investigators from the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District
of New York executed a search warrant, seizing records on the $130,000
nondisclosure payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels just before
the last election. The x-rated performer claims to have had a sexual
affair with Trump years ago. Officials also took a computer, financial
records, and attorney-client communications. Cohen is also being probed
for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations, the Washington Post reported Monday.

This is part of the Barack Obama-led anti-democratic insurgency that
continues trying to oust the duly elected 45th president of the United
States from the White House. Democrats, and more than a few Republicans
on Capitol Hill, refuse to accept that the irretrievably corrupt
Democrat Hillary Clinton was flattened by Republican Trump in a fair
fight.

Commissioned to investigate the Left’s ridiculous
Trump-Russian electoral collusion conspiracy theory, Mueller, with his
scorched-earth, shock-and-awe tactics, remains the Left’s best hope to
remove Trump from power. Now with this major escalation by Mueller, the
Left smells blood in the water and Trump-haters are becoming
increasingly crazed and detached from reality.

For example, MSNBC’s often bizarre Joy Reid devoted a segment of her show to exploring what could happen if the president refused to be questioned by Mueller.

"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid wondered
aloud. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the
federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to
follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get
into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is
fired.'"

Back in the real world that exists outside of MSNBC, Harvard Law
professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Fox News Channel that the
heavy-handed raid made it a "dangerous day today for lawyer-client
relations." Documents were seized in the raid that took place even
though Cohen “cooperated completely” with Mueller’s office, he said.

"If this were Hillary Clinton [having her lawyer's office raided], the
ACLU would be on every TV station in America jumping up and down," the
liberal legal thinker said. "The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil
libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality
is really appalling."

Mueller is reportedly also investigating
a $150,000 donation that Victor Pinchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian
oligarch, made to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in September 2015 after
Trump gave a 20-minute speech. That donation was the largest the
foundation received that year, apart from Trump himself. Pinchuk has
reportedly donated $13 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Cohen reportedly solicited the donation in exchange for the speech. The
address was made over video link to the Yalta European Strategy
conference in Kiev, which promotes closer ties between Ukraine and the
West and was sponsored by Pinchuk’s philanthropy. Former President Bill
Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair have attended the
conference in the past.

Mueller is reportedly interested in
the Trump Organization's failed 2015 push to construct a Trump Tower in
Moscow, not long after the Kiev speech.

Mueller has questioned
at least three wealthy Russian oligarchs about whether they directly or
indirectly provided funding to the Trump campaign. Mueller’s
investigators have also been inquiring about money coming in from the
United Arab Emirates.

Mueller was supposed to be examining
Russian election tampering but this latest raid “once again shows that
the special crisis is Trump,” writes
Daniel Greenfield, “[a]nd removing him from office through any means is
the priority.” What Mueller is doing “is just an extension of the
eavesdropping conducted by Obama.”

“Mueller needs to be
removed,” Greenfield concludes. “This investigation needs to be shut
down and replaced with a credible investigation into what the Russians
actually did and didn't do, rather than a pretext for bringing down
political opponents.”

The Monday raid is one in a long train of prosecutorial abuses.

In December Mueller’s thuggish investigators misappropriated thousands
of possibly privileged Trump transition emails. Weeks before that Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller be fired, saying the special
counsel has “indisputable” conflicts of interest.

“We are at
risk of a coup d’état in this country if we allow an unaccountable
person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected president of the
United States,” Gaetz said, echoing earlier remarks by writer Michael
Walsh who asserts the Left is engaged in a “rolling coup attempt”
against President Trump.

Unless somebody delivers a coup de
grâce to this disgraceful coup attempt, Mueller’s machinations against
Trump could drag on for a long time.